Robert S. Allen

Robert Samuel Allen (11 June 1940-2 February 1968) was a Sergeant of the US Marine Corps who fought in the Vietnam War.

Biography
Robert Samuel Allen was born in Yankton, South Dakota on 11 June 1940. Allen was drafted into the US Marine Corps in 1964 at the age of 24 and was sent to South Vietnam during the Vietnam War; Allen was made a corporal and was sent to defend Hue City from the North Vietnamese Army. Allen was the senior commander of US troops at the bank of the Perfume River along the shore of Hue during the NVA assault on 2 February 1968, holding off NVA attacks on an evacuation site for Marines. He was killed in action in its defense.